Storm window



April 29, 1952 s. SPECTOR ETAL STORM WINDOW 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Sept. 7, 1949 INVENTORS 'Sam Spect llllllllllllllllll ll llllllllll z Geo ATTORNEYS April 29, 1952 s. SPECTOR ETAL 2,595,016

STORM WINDOW Filed Sept. 7, 1949 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 INVENTORS 15am Spector George T e ulanszki.

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The lintel section 36, being preferably of the same section as the jamb portion 20, is likewise provided with corresponding stepped channels 3|, 32 and 33 defined by fins 34, 35, 36, and 31, the fins 35 and 36 having pillow portions 38 and 39. When the jamb sections 28 and the lintel section 38 are assembled with a mitered joint as shown in Fig. 1, the aforesaid channels coincide to provide continuous stepped channels around the inside of three sides of the frame H).

The sill section 46, preferably interfitted with the jambs 20 by a butt joint as shown in Figure 1 so that its mounting fin l4 coincides with the jamb fins |2, comprises, as shown in Figure 3, an outwardly slanting drain portion 4| and a channel portion 43 coinciding with the innermost or screen channel 23 of the jamb section 28. The channel 43 is defined by an inner channel fin 41 corresponding with the inner fins 21 and a heavier sealing fin 46, provided with a slanting sealing edge, corresponding to the fin 26.

As shown in Figures 6, 7 and 8, the outer sash U, slidable in the jamb channels 2| and extending into the lintel channel 3| is comprised of rolled box section stock 5| extending around three sides, i. e. the jambs and lintel, of the sash 50. The box section 5| is provided with an inner glass-receiving channel 52 and an outer corner-clip receiving fin 53. The pane of glass 54 is received and sealed in the channel 52 by means of the extruded rubber glazing channel 55. The clip-receiving rib 53 provides an outer channel between the fin and the box for receiving the compressible sealing strip 56 which seals the space between the sash 50 and the outer jamb fins 24 and the lintel fin 34. It is to be noted that, to provide increased rigidity for the section 5|, an inwardly raised portion 51 is provided. (See the sectional showing of the section 5|.)

The bottom or sill portion of the sash 59 comprises an extruded channel member 58 in which the pane 54 and rubber glazing channel 55a are received. A corner-clip receiving rib 59, corresponding to the rib 53 of the box section 5|, is carried by the sill member 58.

The sash 60 is identical in construction with thesash 50, except that it has laterally larger dimensions to permit it to slide in the jamb channels 22 which, being stepped with respect to the channels 2|, are spaced farther apart.

Thecorners of the lintel and jamb portions of the sashes 56 and 60, all portions being of the box section 5|, are mitered. The corners between the silland jamb portions of the sashes, the members being of different section except for the corresponding fins 53 and 59, are joined with a stepped mitered joint. The fastening means for the corners of the sashes 56 and 68 comprise the channeled right angle corner clips 6| having the channel portions 62 and 63 which are crimped around the fins 53 and 59. In fabricating the clips 6|, an outstanding hexagonal boss 64 is drawn in the channel 63 at its corner with the channel 62. These bosses 64 receive and hold frictionally the mounting bearings 65, having an eccentric hexagonal bore 66 fitted on a boss 64. The clips 6| are so mounted on the corners of the sashes 56 and 68 that on each side two bearings 65 extend laterally and are adapted to be received in the jamb channels in which the sashes are slidably mounted.

The screen sash 16 is slidably mounted in the innermost jamb channels 23 and comprises a 81 cut in the lower part of the channel frame of rolled box-section stock 1| having a clip receiving fin 12 and an inwardly-opening screen-receiving channel 13 in which the wire screening 14 is held by wedging wire 15. The corners of the screen sash 16 are fastened by means of crimped clips 6|, provided with bosses 64 in the same manner as the sashes 50 and 86.

To provide the sashes 50 and 6D with handles for raising and lowering the sashes, the sill members 58 are provided with longitudinal raised portions 61 (raised equally to the portion 5| of the section 5|) having a lower slanting edge adapted to seal and mate with the slanting edge of the sill fin 46 (see Fig. 3). Extending lengthwise of the portion 61 is a circular handle-pin receiving channel 68 opening exteriorly through the slot 69. Handles 16 are provided with pins 11 integral with the handle straps 18, the pins 11 extending laterally of the straps 18. The raised portions 61 of the sills 58 are milled off transversely to provide the handle-strap-receiving slot 19|. The handle strap slots are spaced from the corners of the sashes to provide a central block 61a which limits the sliding movement of the handle straps in the slots 19 and 19|. Before assembling the frames of the sashes 50 and 60, the handle pins 11 are slid into the channels 68, the straps 18 passing through the slots 69, until the handle straps are free to fall in the slots 19 and 19-4 where the handles are free to swing through a 180 are. When the sashes are assembled, each frame carries a pair of handles 16 which are slidable in the channel 68 when the handles are perpendicular to the sill 58 but which are held to a limited sliding movement when the handles are swung to a vertical position in the slots 19 and 16--|.

Mounting of the aforesaid glazed sashes 5!) and 66 and the screened sash 10 is accomplished by means of the bearing passageways 85, 86, and fins 25, 26, and 21, respectively, in each of the jambs 20 (see Fig. 9). To mount the sash 50, for example, the upper pair of bearings 65 on the sash are inserted through the passageway 85 while the sash is held in an approximately horizontal position. With bearing 65 pressed against the outer fins 24 of the jambs 26, the uper bearings 65 are raised in the channel 2|, the sash 50 assuming a substantially vertical position as the upper bearings are raised in the channel 2| until the lower pair of bearings 65 are brought opposite the passageways 85 and may be passed therethrough into the channel 2 whereupon the sash 50 may be raised and lowered in the channel 2|. To remove the sash 50 for cleaning, adjustment or repairing, the reverse of the above procedure is followed, the lower pair of bearings 65 being first removed through the passageways 85 and the sash then being lowered to a horizontal position so the upper pair of bearings 65 may pass through the passageways 85 and the sash 50 may be removed from the frame N.

The frame 68 is likewise mounted in its channel 22, its bearings 65 passing through the passageway 86 and the sash 10 is mounted in its channel 23 by passing its bosses 64 through the passageway 81 in the fin 21.

The pillow portions 28 and 29 serve as the ways for the bearings 65 as the sashes 58 and 60 are slid in their respective channels, the sealing strips 56 pressing against the outer fin 24 to seal the sash 50 and the corresponding sealing strip 56 in the sash 68 pressing against the fin 25 to seal that sash. When the sash 50 is in its normal upper position and the sash 60 is in its normal lower position for services as a storm sash, the sealing strip 56 in the lintel of the sash 60 bears against the raised portion 6'! of the sill 58 of the sash 50 to seal the horizontal joint between the sashes 50 and 60.

It is an advantage of this invention that it may be made of continuous lengths of extruded or rolled metal stock which may be cut to desired lengths for making various stock sizes of windows. Consequently, the relatively narrow range of manufacturing tolerances in such stock lengths of constant cross-section insures accurate fit of the-window parts in most instances. However, because such manufacturing tolerances do exist and may become cumulative with respect to a given sash in a given frame, the eccentric bores 66 of the bearings 65 permit the effective thickness of the sashes 50 and 60 to be adjusted to accommodate variations in the manufacturing tolerance and to accommodate wear between the bearings and pillows and between the sealing strips and their contacted fins. In Fig. 6 the bearings 65 are shown mounted on the bosses 64 so that the minimum throw of the eccentric bore 66 is effected. This is the normal position of the bearings 65 on the boss 64 when the sashes 50 and 60 are first inserted in the jamb channels 2| and 22. If the sashes are loose in the channels or wear occurs, the sashes are simply removed, the bearings 65 are taken off the bosses 64 and indexed to a position effecting a greater throw, the position of maximum throw being shown in Fig. 8.

To look the glazed sashes 50 and 60 in either the raised or lowered position, keeper holes 88 are drilled in the pillow portions 28 and 29 to receive the handle pins 7! when the handles 16 are slid outwardly in the slots 19 and 19-l.

Since there is no need to seal the joint between the screen sash and the frame ID, the bearings 65 may be omitted from the bosses 64 on the corner clips of the sash 10. To prevent rattling of the sash l0 and to hold the sash releasably in either its raised or lowered position, the channel adjacent the fin 12, corresponding to the sealing strip channel in the sashes 50 and 60, may be provided with leaf springs 8| having curved ends which bear against the jamb fins 26 and may fall in suitable detents 82 located on the inner side of the jamb fins 26, as shown in Fig. 4.

Stop fins 83 may be provided in the jamb channel 2| or other suitable means may be employed to prevent the sash 50 from being moved laterally and thereby falling out of the frame I0. The base of the channel 22 and the corner clips 6| prevent any substantial lateral movement of the sashes 60 and 10, respectively.

It is to be understood that features of our above described self-storing storm sash may be incorporated in other windows and, consequently, this invention is not limited in whole or in part to the preferred embodiment disclosed but may be varied by those skilled in the art within the scope of the following claims without departing from the spirit or scope of our invention.

What is claimed is:

1. Window sash having sashes individually removable from the inside of the window comprising a frame defining a sash opening, said frame being comprised of lintel and sill members and a pair of jambs having a plurality of pairs of 0pposed coplanar channels, said pairs of jamb channels being inwardly offset away from the center of the sash opening so that the outer walls of any given channel extend toward the center of the window farther than the inner wall of that channel, sashes slidable in a pair of said opposite coplanar channels, the lateral dimension between opposite vertically extending sides of a given sash being less than the distance between the inner walls and greater than the distance between the outer walls of the channel in which said sash slides, laterally extending bosses on said vertically extending sides of said sashes, the lateral distance between the ends of opposite bosses on a given sash being greater than the distance between the inner walls of the channel for the sash, and passageways cut in the inner walls of the channels for each of said sashes to permit said bosses to be passed through said inner walls and into the channels in which said sashes are slidable.

2. A window sash as defined in claim 1 in which two of said sashes are glazed and which, when one is in the upper part of said frames and the other in the lower part, can close the sash opening in said frame, and adjustable means on the bosses of said glazed sash to bear against the inner walls of the jamb channels in which said sashes are slidable and to press the outside of said sashes into a weather-sealing relationship with the outer walls of said channels.

3. A storm window sash as defined in claim 2 in which said bosses are polygonal in cross-section and said adjustable means comprise hearing members having eccentric bores mating with said bosses and sealing strips on the outside of said sashes to seal against the outer wall of the jamb channel in which said sashes are slidable.

4. A self-storing storm sash as defined in claim 2, the vertical height of each of said sashes being equal to substantially one-half of the vertical height of the sash opening in said frames.

SAM SPECTOR. GEORGE J. 'IEPLANSZKI.

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